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AOL names its Board of Directors

AOL, which is expected to be spun off from Time Warner as an independent company later this year, has named the members of its Board of Directors, who will join CEO and Chairman Tim Armstrong at the table. They are: Richard Dalzell, former Chief Information Officer of...

Tags: America Online Inc., Board, Board Of Directors, Board Member, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Questioning IT

This is the 13th excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. There are, very broadly speaking, two main approaches to managing IT open to board members and senior non IT executives. In the first of these you ask no difficult...

Tags: Information Technology, Board, Board Member, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-11

Move over, CIA: here comes HP

Does the name Kurt Eichenwald ring a bell?He's the New York Times reporter who, before, during and after the Enron trial, helped inform the nation about the shenanigans at the ill-fated utility.When Eichenwald reports something, I believe it.Even if what he is reporting is unbelievable.Like, for example, the well-sourced assertion...

Tags: board, Board Member, Kurt Eichenwald

Blog posts 2006-09-20

Additional Resources

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Figuring the value of software

Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-02

KFC UNThinking at the UN

Honestly, the professional PR brigade never cease to amaze me with some of the nuttiest ideas for brand enhancement that all too often turn out to be just the opposite. My ZDNet colleague Jason Perlow was spammed today by a top PR agency with...

Tags: Brand, KFC Corp., UN General Assembly, Yum, Branding, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Senior IBM exec among those charged in Wall Street insider trading sting

Greed on Wall Street has landed six people - including a long-time, high-level IBM executive - in handcuffs after the FBI charged them with being involved with "the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history." In all, the six netted illegal profits of more than $20...

Tags: Hedge Fund, FBI, Wall Street, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Chiesi, MOFFAT, Federal Government, Investment, Financial Services, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-16

The best protection for software assets

Support and development."You have to reveal your invention. The rights don?t last that long."They do last too long, frankly. Software technology changes very fast. Most products are well beyond the end of their life cycle by the time a patent expires. Pretty much all of our IP stuff is way...

Tags: asset, patent, Fight Club, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

OpenID, meet the U.S. government

The U.S. government has now joined the OpenID effort. Ten technology players said Wednesday that they will support President Obama's initial pilot programs to make it easier to register and work with government Web sites. OpenID is an identity system for the Web that lets people use...

Tags: Web, Web Site, U.S. Government, OpenID, Government, Web Site Development, Vertical Industries, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-09

Colbert heats up global warming

Too funnySo, 350ppm means certain environmental disaster? And we're already above that? Hmmm...Back to the drawing board...I really REALLY resent the Chicken Littles running around screaming their heads off, and I'm gradually getting the feeling that, even if originally well-intentioned, they can't see the forest for the trees.What...

Tags: disclamer, Colbert, global warming, scientific community, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

PC vs. Mac: 'If you're ready to compromise, you call me'

Every Cult has to have someone to hate....If they didn't have Windows to bash they would just be an over priced office tool. They have to keep the anger alive in order to keep the minions buying.If you step back and look at a Laptop/PC as a tool to get...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Sony loses bid to force royalties out of webcaster

On the hunt for money to beef up their rapidly deteriorating industry, the Big Four record labels sued LAUNCH, owned by Yahoo, and currently operated by CBS Radio CBS also owns ZDNet. Their gripe: LAUNCH lets users create channels by genre and skip songs they don't like. This, they claimed,...

Tags: Sony Corp., Predictability, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-24

NetApp names new CEO; Reports solid quarter

Storage company NetApp said Wednesday that Tom Georgens, chief operating officer, will become CEO replacing Dan Warmenhoven. Warmenhoven will be executive chairman of the company. Georgens right has been a member of the board and president and chief operating officer since February 2008. He joined the company...

Tags: Revenue, NetApp Inc., Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-19

The price factor

Prices and profitsCompetition is supposed to erode ALL excessive profits, so that is what is happening. PCs (incl. Apple) have largely become commodity products, which makes it almost impossible to compete on anything BUT price.And why so obsessed about quality? We throw away millions of WORKING PCs every year because...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Strategy, price factor, Toshiba Corp., notebook, graphics

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

Schmidt's departure does nothing to stem scrutiny of Apple

A few months back, when it was announced that the Federal Trade Commission was looking into Google CEO Eric Schmidt's role on Apple's board, Schmidt said Google "doesn't see Apple as a primary competitior." Apparently Apple sees it differently. According to the this statement from Steve: ...

Tags: Google Inc., Board, Apple Inc., Schmidt, Corporate Governance, Federal Government, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple board

Apple today announced that Dr. Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, is resigning from Apple’s Board of Directors, a position he has held since August 2006. “Eric has been an excellent Board member for Apple, investing his valuable time, talent, passion and wisdom to help make Apple successful,”...

Tags: Eric Schmidt, Board, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-08-03

It's official: Google and Apple are competitors (especially in mobile)

The resignation of Google CEO Eric Schmidt from Apple's board of directors merely confirms what has been clear for some time---the two companies will increasingly compete in the mobile market. It's Android vs. the iPhone and the games are just about to begin. In...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Mobile, Apple Inc., Android, Browser App, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Google's Schmidt resigns from Apple's board; Jobs: It would be recusal city

Apple said Monday that Google CEO Eric Schmidt will resign from the board of directors since the two companies increasingly compete. In a statement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said emphasis mine: “Eric has been an excellent Board member for Apple, investing his valuable time, talent, passion...

Tags: Job, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Board, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-03

HP Pavilion dv4-1465DX

Editors' note: This review is part of our Back-to-school 2009 Retail Laptop Roundup, covering specific new configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores. The Hewlett-Packard Pavilion dv4-1465dx is dubbed a "Special Edition" laptop for its unique, glossy brown, vaguely plaid chassis. It's also a member of...

Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, battery, HP Pavilion, laptop computer, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Product reviews 2009-08-01

SAP's Schwarz & Sikka: The Road to More Agile Business Performance

Last week I had the opportunity to spend time with SAP CTO Vishal Sikka and separately SAP executive board member John Schwarz, and I've been ruminating on our conversations a lot since those meetings. Fortunately I was part of a group of bloggers who have been following SAP closely, and...

Tags: Performance, SAP AG, Financial Planning, Change Management, Performance Management, Strategy, Finance, Tools & Techniques, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-31